THE AUCKLAND "LITERARY" SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2004, 21 June 1870, Page 4

THE AUCKLAND "LITERARY" SOCIETY.

To the Editor of the lleeali>. Sih, —A paragraph in tlie Eceni.-i - emanating from persons calling them-"-" '' " The Auckland Literary Society," j, a! ]'\']" brought uiuUr my notice. Tlie stvle ;■ reminds me of Hood's account of tli* fame..-. i»'U-ersasio)ie at Hogs' Norton. I l laTe over the immigration returns, and fii-d 1 some of these persons were, before tliev £ came "literary," very useful member* c 'f society. I need hardly say that I J o " know any of these individuals. I ] 1:lTe the person they call their president. tlie-..jvl I know him from Adam, and that's ail. I never spoken to him, and I nuan to ?o:Uiav.> in the same happy condition of isolation % far as that ridiculous person is concerue'l I would refer him to the second v -' \\, Stoke Pogi3 Constitution as a warrant f,-, r t'" : - prudential non-observance.—' ; Article the person? of Guys shall be inviolable. :r'i ignorance be tolerated henceforwarJ." I hope you will permit me, in condu-ir,-. to observe that I would not drink vat.'-! gruel, much less brandy and water, wi.h a-iv of these people. I would not attend \u. meetings of this Society on any account. \ hope for some reward from the iMttstri. u. authors whose shades these people disturb. I expect a letter from Sir Walter Scott by tU next thunder.torm in Wellington, prariiu that I would use my influence to prereutth" " Death of Marmion" any more, as s;:o'i " literery" ass-ass-iuation disturbs his pi;ace.— I am, ic., James Ei.n=e Lu .